wwII
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US when the war started
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| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany/Leader of the Nazi party
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| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy
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| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister (Leader) of the British Government
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| Hideki Tojo | Leader of japan
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| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Russia (USSR) - Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
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| Admiral Chester Nimitz | commander of the U.S. pacific Fleet
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| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of all of the Allied Forces.
Would later become president of the U.S.
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| 13th | Abolished slavery
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| 14th | gave African Americans Citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law
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| 15th | gave all made citizenship the right to vote including African Americans
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| 16th | gave congress the right to tax income
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| 18th | outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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| 19th | Gave woman the right to vote. Passed in 1919.
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| 21st | repealed (cancelled) the 18th amendment in the 1930's
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| General George S. Patton | Led U.S. Forces in the Battle of the Bulge and the march to Germany
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| General Douglas MacArthur | Planned the strategy of islands hopping. Gain control of the islands in the pacific from Japan and use them as American bases.
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| President Harry S. Truman | FDR dies suddenly and VP Truman is sworn in as president. Will lead US through the end of the war.
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| Anne Frank | 13 year old Jewish girl from the Netherlands. Hid with her family for nearly 2 years in a hiding place over her father's office.
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| Allied Powers | Britain, France, United States, some smaller Countries
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| Axis Power | Germany,Italy,Japan
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| Dictator | A leader who gains complete control of a country's government,often by forces or intimidation
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| Fascism | A form of government where individual freedoms are denied and complete power is given to the government
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| Lend-Lease | The U.S. let Britain borrow all of the military supplies it needed to fight the Axis and did not ask for payment
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| Rationing | Government limiting the amount of food, gasoline,etc that people could buy
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| Victory Gardens | small vegetable gardens planted to help increase the amount of food available in the countries
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| Atomic bomb | Massive explosive devise made by splitting atoms
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| Manhattan Project | Government code name for the development pf the bomb
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| Holocaust | Widespread destruction. Nazis killed over 6 million Jews in concentration camps during the war.
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| Concentration Camps | confinement camps where Nazis sent the Jewish people they captured
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| Battle of Midway | major turning point in the war against Japan. Small island near Hawaii.
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| Battle of Stalingrad | Germans tried to take over and destroyed it.
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| Battle of lwo Jima | Iwo Jima, Japan: February 1945
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| VE Day | Victory in Europ Day : May 8 1945
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| Invasion of Normandy | Normandy, France: Force of 175,000 Allied
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| Hiroshima, Japan | August 6, 1945. Air force bomber plane Enola Gay dropped a atomic bomb on the City
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| VJ Day | Victory in Japan: August 14, 1945
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| Costs of war | Bloodiest war in the history of the world
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